Save email address and password????
rich
May 25, 2007, 08:12 AM posted in General DiscussionStill not quite sure why there is a "Save email address and password" option in the login, and I really wish that I could just every time I open a web browser be right there on my Connect page as my IE/Firefox homepage. What exactly does that figure do, when no matter what, when all browsers are closed and then opened I must log in again? I don't find ChinesePod to be that data-sensative to even care if someone gets on as me...what will they do, delete my vocab? Gmail and Yahoo let you go right into your inbox without login...why not CPod? Was just feature just never implemented? I would like to make CPod's Connect page my homepage, but right now Google Reader is more reliable in giving me a quick glance at who's posted what. Thanks for listening and implementing!
-Rich
steve
May 31, 2007, 09:15 AMHi Rich, I can see you point - it does seem as though that login option is redundant. The reason the site asks you to login again is to see whether your paid subscription is still active, and thus provide you with the appropriate access. The site does this once every 24 hours, but if you change browsers within the 24 hours it will happen again (so I suppose the login statement could be written more accurately as 'Save email address and password on this browser for the next 24 hours'). I'll ask the team if there are better ways we can do this, but in the meantime I hope this at least explains what's going on.
trevelyan
May 31, 2007, 09:15 AMhonestly, I agree with this.
rich
June 02, 2007, 01:13 PMUh, so if I don't click it, it will ask me for my password every page change? I don't get the alternative. But I do understand it needs to check my account, yet why can't it do then when I'm logged in, and when I access an account-restricted area at that point check?
fordbronco
June 02, 2007, 03:39 PM24 hours? Not for me, anyways. Closing the browser always logs me off. Anyways 24 hours is too short, if that's actually the way it was supposed to be working.. I'd suggest two weeks minimum.. and there are so many other ways to check whether your paid subscription is active, it's not even funny.
rich
June 03, 2007, 09:10 AMI agree. Other website, when using "Remember me" feature, it isn't that the user doesn't get logged off when their sesson expires, but all that does is tells the website to save a cookie on the user's computers and uses that to authenticate their login, rather than bugging the user to put in their username and password every time. So why can't ChinesePod use this feature? When I come to your site, without an active sesson, why not first look to see if I have a cookie for your site that contains an ID that logs me in automatically? At this point you'd check for my account access anyway. I'm still not clear what ChinesePod needs to be so secure about that other websites don't need to be. Is this a bank? :P
huomao
June 03, 2007, 11:28 AMyahoo has an option, 'keep me signed in for 2 weeks unless I sign out,'
backfromspace
June 03, 2007, 10:16 PMI also find that the site doesn't remember my details at all: not even for 24 hrs. Every time I navigate away from the site I have to type in my username and password again.
rich
May 31, 2007, 04:16 AMno comments?